Year was a Common Year Starting On Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common Year Starting On Sunday of the 10-day slower Julian Calendar ).
- Soul Calibur , a two-player arcade style fighter, is set in this year.
- January 5 - Xu Xiake , Chinese adventurer and geographer (died 1641 )
- January 6 - Gaspar De Guzmán Y Pimentel, Count-Duke Of Olivares , Spanish statesman (died 1645 )
- January 8 - Jan Pieterszoon Coen , Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (died 1629 )
- February 26 - Stefano Landi , Italian composer (died 1639 )
- May 8 - Victor Amadeus I, Duke Of Savoy (died 1637 )
- June 2 - Willem Ysbrandtsz Bontekoe , Dutch sea captain (died 1657 )
- June 5 - Robert Rich, 2nd Earl Of Warwick , English colonial administrator and admiral (died 1658 )
- June 15 - Gabriel Oxenstierna , Swedish statesman (died 1640 )
- June 21 - Kaspar Von Barth , German philologist (died 1658 )
- July - George Yeardley , English colonial administrator in America (died 1627 )
- August 18 - Virginia Dare , Virginia colony settler (died 1588 )
- September 18 - Francesca Caccini , Italian composer
- November 3 - Samuel Scheidt , German composer (died 1653 )
- November 17 - Joost Van Den Vondel , Dutch dramatist and poet (died 1679 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Nathan Field , English dramatist and actor (died 1620 )
- --- Arthur Johnston , Scottish physician and poet (died 1641 )
- --- Francis Kynaston , English courtier and poet (died 1642 )
- --- Krzysztof Ossoliński , Polish nobleman (died 1645 )
- --- Yun Seondo , Korean politician and poet (died 1671 )
- --- Song Yingxing , Chinese encyclopedist (d. 1666 )
: ''See also .''
- January - Thomas Seckford , English official (born 1515 )
- February 8 - Mary, Queen Of Scots (executed) (born 1542 )
- February 9 - Vincenzo Ruffo , Italian composer (born 1510 )
- March 15 - Kaspar Olevianus , German theologian (born 1536 )
- March 30 - Ralph Sadler , English statesman (born 1507 )
- April 8 - John Foxe , English author (born 1516 )
- April 14 - Edward Manners, 3rd Earl Of Rutland (born 1548 )
- April 16 - Anne Stanhope , Duchess of Somerset (born 1497 )
- June 23 – Omura Sumitada , Japanese Christian daimyo (born 1532 )
- August 29 - Vincenzo Bellavere , Italian composer (born c 1540 )
- October 19 - Francesco I De' Medici, Grand Duke Of Tuscany (born 1541 )
- ''date unknown''
- --- Abe Motozane , Japanese warlord (born 1513 )
- --- Dudley Fenner , English puritan divine (born c 1558 )
- --- Jan Tarlo (1527-1587) , Polish nobleman (born 1527 )
- --- Hai Rui , Ming dynasty "model official" (born 1514 )
- --- Otomo Sorin , Japanese Christian daimyo (born 1530 )
- ''probable''
- --- George Whetstone , English writer (born 1544 )
: ''See also .''
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